Harken

Acknowledgements

Louie Pinto, Randy Hancock, Stephen Hall, Peng Joon, Laurence Oliviero, Karsten Arend & Sam Mikhail

for believing in me and making this book far bigger than I could have made it alone,

My Los Angeles YouTube Family

for Maggiano’s and Hollywood Sign nights away from my desk,

The FTW Crew

for poking through my Skype invisibility cloak and making me communicate with people who are not imaginary,

Rachul Gensburg

for dragging me outside to get food that was not cooked by microwave,

Kim Fuller

for suffering through the first draft, the second draft, and all the others, swearing to never let that awful stuff leak out (you did, right?),

Ilana Zackon

for daily manuscript critiques across two countries, from my office to your bedroom closet,

Karen Hansen

for knowing far more about how moms think than I ever will,

Ari Corsetti and Rie Goldie

for being unrelenting, and never letting me slide when you knew I could do better,

Zane Spraggins, Jackie Asbury, Robyn Schneider, Lauren Suero & Cassidy Tucker

for pre-reading this book and helping me get it ready for the world,

The Bennings

for letting me ride in your magnificent Shelby GT500 Mustang, all in the name of research (of course),

Louis Beckett & Ferrari Maserati Beverly Hills

for letting me take photos of your dealership’s Maserati even though I couldn’t buy it (yet),

Elana Roth

for gently telling me what needed to be changed in my first draft, which turned out to be everything,

Taylor

for making the book sparkle more,

And The NATIONEERS

for watching from the very beginning as this story came to life.